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Business Intelligence Requirements for IT: What every IT Manager Should Know about Users' Real Need for BI
Today, companies are getting a continual negative return on BI investment due to extensive implementation process. This paper describes a new approach to BI that empowers the business owners and knowledge workers to quickly and easily find the answers to their questions.

Lean BPM: A Pragmatic Approach to Automating Business Processes
Focused on collaborative, process-centric applications that are easy to develop, have a low cost to deploy, and deliver a fast return on investment, Lean BPM presents a new opportunity to reduce costs and streamline processes without the need for consultants and developers-enabling IT to deliver applications that increase productivity for the businesses without the associated high costs.

Delivering Quality, on Time: The Importance of Network Time Synchronization
Many applications use time stamps as a key element that adds tremendous meaning to measured and generated data. The information in this white paper is based on many years of time synchronization experience, from thousands of IT professionals like you, whose job it is to keep the essential network functions running smoothly.

A Guide to Field Mobility: Empowering Your Field Workforce Today For a More Successful and Profitable Enterprise Tomorrow
Reap the benefits of a field mobility solution - enterprise-wide - one that empowers technicians, sales teams, inspectors and route sales with "always on" connectivity and real-time visibility. You can't afford not to maximize productivity and ensure customer satisfaction, service and retention levels or profitability can suffer. Discover the benefits of field mobility today.

Protecting Your Data and Eliminating Vulnerabilities
Too often, companies focus all their attention on physical security, while overlooking data and network security. Learn more about reducing risk and creating basic network security practices that can help protect you and your company's employees and data.

Survey Results: Technology Executives & Application Security Risks
See the results of the new Banking Application Security survey and listen to the insights provided by a panel of experts regarding application security for custom and third-party applications.



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2008 Survey of IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Management in the Real World
Read about the qualities that make for success in IT GRC management in the summary of Enterprise Management Associates' survey of 224 professionals.

5 Reasons Why You Need Better Visibility of Your Network
Ever try walking across the room in the dark? Lack of visibility makes even the simplest task difficult indeed. Imagine tackling complex jobs like nailing ROI targets or meeting rising network performance expectations. Get five concrete reasons why you should work toward greater network visibility.



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Application Consolidation & Global Sourcing Briefing Center
Static application requirements, compounded by tremendous pressures created by global sourcing for application development, are a recipe for frustration, software defects and long development cycles. Instead, test drive applications before they're built. When requirement definitions are accurate, developers succeed.



Featured Blog
Data Center Power Consumption Can Be a FAWNy Business
I'm a sucker for a good pun. (Of course, some would say that there's no such thing as a "good" pun.) So when I came across a paper entitled FAWNdamentally Power-efficient Clusters, I had to read it. And you know what?...




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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 
  In This Issue
» Business Intelligence Requirements for IT: What every IT Manager Should Know about Users' Real Need for BI
» Lean BPM: A Pragmatic Approach to Automating Business Processes
» Delivering Quality, on Time: The Importance of Network Time Synchronization
» A Guide to Field Mobility: Empowering Your Field Workforce Today For a More Successful and Profitable Enterprise Tomorrow
» Protecting Your Data and Eliminating Vulnerabilities
» Survey Results: Technology Executives & Application Security Risks
» 2008 Survey of IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Management in the Real World
» 5 Reasons Why You Need Better Visibility of Your Network
» Application Consolidation & Global Sourcing Briefing Center
» Data Center Power Consumption Can Be a FAWNy Business
» Scaling a 24x7 Customer Service Environment
» How Do I: Create Gadget Style Windows in WPF
» Five Network Security Threats and How to Protect Your Business
» Optimizing The End-User Experience Across Your Enterprise
 

Featured Video
Scaling a 24x7 Customer Service Environment

As a company that provides remote database administration for its clients, Ntirety needed a powerful and proactive management tool that could scale with its business, while ensuring that its customers were running 24x7. Eight years ago it chose Precise, and is still going strong today, solving within minutes more than 6,000 alerts every month before they become problems that could cause downtime.

How Do I: Create Gadget Style Windows in WPF

In WPF, it is an easy task to create gadget style applications that appear to be objects that float on the desktop -- similar to the gadgets used in the Vista Sidebar.



Featured Online Event
Five Network Security Threats and How to Protect Your Business

Hear from industry security experts from leading telecom service providers as they offer tactics and strategies to implement a higher level of data security across your organization.

Optimizing The End-User Experience Across Your Enterprise

Is the performance level of your organization's most critical end-user applications meeting the needs of your customers? Can you guarantee at any point in time that their end-user response time is satisfactory, or is your organization waiting for a problem ticket to arrive at the service desk indicating a costly customer issue? In today's increasingly web-driven business world, the quality of experience (QoE) of an organization's end user applications can mean the difference between a satisfied customer and a missed opportunity. Join EMA Vice President Dennis Drogseth and ASG Senior Director of Solutions Management Ed Hallock as they discuss these topics and more.


 
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